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Lightroom 4.4 Now Available

Lightroom 4.4 is now available as a final release on Adobe.com and through the update mechanism in Lightroom 4. The goal of this release is to provide additional camera raw support, lens profile support and address bugs that were introduced in previous releases of Lightroom.

Changes to Existing Camera Support:

Lightroom 4.4 includes a correction to the demosaic algorithms for Fujifilm cameras with the X-Trans sensor. This specifically impacts the following cameras:

Fujifilm X-Pro1 (*)

Fujifilm X-E1 (*)

Fujifilm X100S

Fujifilm X20

(*) Based on user feedback, the default sharpening amount applied to Fujifilm X-Pro1 and Fujifilm X-E1 raw files has been increased between Lightroom 4.4 Release Candidate and the final Lightroom 4.4 release.

Lightroom 4.4 includes a correction to the demosaic algorithms for Fujifilm cameras with the EXR sensor. This correction applies only to raw images captured using the “EXR HR” mode with the following cameras:

Fujifilm X10

Fujifilm XF1

Fujifilm X-S1

Fujifilm S200EXR

Fujifilm HS20EXR

Fujifilm HS30EXR

Fujifilm F550EXR

Fujifilm F600EXR

Fujifilm F770EXR

Fujifilm F800EXR

Adjusted Nikon default white balance for the following camera models:

NikonD2X

NikonD2Xs

NikonD2Hs

NikonD200

NikonD40

NikonD50

NikonD80

– Fix default aspect ratio support for Fujifilm X-E1 raw files.

Bugs Corrected in Lightroom 4.4:

The following bugs that were part the Lightroom 4 releases have been corrected. The team appreciates the very detailed feedback the community has provided on Lightroom 4 and we’re excited to correct a number of issues experienced by our customers. These issues have been FIXED:

The crop overlay tool resized incorrectly when used in conjunction with the “Constrain to Crop” checkbox in the Lens Correction panel.

Background graphics were not correctly rendered within the Book Module.

Reading metadata from file would sometimes result in keyword and and GPS metadata to not save for video files.

Updated the “Missing File Icon” for HiDPI / Retina displays

The supplied lens profile for the Sony RX-1 did not contain vignette information.

Preview in Develop Module was not updated with the latest adjustments.

Square tile artifacts while painting with brush.

Previews of photos in portrait orientation were blurry when viewed in the filmstrip in the Develop module. (Mac only).

Image in Book Disappears After Changing Modules.

Error changing modules when in Slideshow with second monitor connected.

Stack badges displayed the wrong count when creating new stack that included a preexisting stack.

“(*) Based on user feedback, the default sharpening amount applied to Fujifilm X-Pro1 and Fujifilm X-E1 raw files has been increased between Lightroom 4.4 Release Candidate and the final Lightroom 4.4 release. ”
Is this increased default sharpening taking place in the background? The default settings of the sharpening sliders does not seem to be different from before (4.4RC)

Slideshow Module performance is erratic: 1) un-cropped pictures do not display to full size of the guidelines, 2) Zoom to Fill only zooms the cast shadow, not the picture, 3) I lot some user pre-sets on update.

Wish to have a much quicker search function of face as it is from iPhoto someday so as to save time from the current library setting.

Secondly, can the screen show an instant data at least for the size and form of the image data? Whether the image is in raw, dng, tiff or jpeg can be easier identified in one glance and how big of the size is can be more helpful. I see now it shows on the bottom side after processing with a note: tiff…..that,if can be always available will be helpful. Thanks a lot . But in case it is due to my ignorance. Please feel free to correct me. I love this software very much and I have now dropped iPhoto and Aperturer. Thank you all again and keep the good work to cheer all of your fans at all time.

Although I appreciate the upgrade to 4.4 to a great extent I do not appreciate what Adobe has done to the Lens Correction – Manual – Transform adjustments, that now work in a different way to the 4.3 version. It was the latter that was the deal clincher for me, and having only used the licensed software for a couple of weeks I now find that I am unable to use Lightroom as I initially wanted to.

Is it possible to uninstall the software and reinstall from the disc so that I can keep running in the older version?

I have a folder of .29 short .avi movies from my VADO HD. I captured a jpg from the first 11 of the movie clips as I set the *Poster Frame*. They were all named and in sequence, and the jpgs remain as they were in the Win8 explorer folder.

In LR 4.4 the captured jpgs are GONE (all but one that was a different name than the .avi file). And they will NOT come back, become visible, when I synchronize the folder.

Because the only captured jpg was a different name than the the .avi file I renamed another jpg in Win8 explorer. This renamed file then came into LR 4.4 with a *Folder Synchronize*.

Conclusion – captured jpgs with the same name as the movie file aren’t being seen by LR 4.4. Renaming will restore them.

I also had a problem when syncing files. Did you find any solution in your research?

This was my problem:

“I did a big reorganization of my photos through Finder (Mac), as I usually do, and when Lightroom synchronize the folders, the software disappeared with all the treatment that was done before, returning the images back to the step that they were imported.”

I’ve installed the new download version 4.4 for 64-bit on my Windows PC and now I’m not able to start Lightroom anymore. A dll seems to be missing (mfc100u.dll). Any idea what to do? Thanks in advance,
Kathrin

Hi,
Thanks for the update! Much appreciated and anticipated for the Fujifilm X-Trans sensor files!
ADOBE, from your experience, what would you recommend for workflow for X-Trans files? Keep the Fujifilm RAW’s in Lightroom 4.4. or convert them to DNG? Or is there no difference in quality? Normally I always convert my Nikon files to DNG.
Thanks!

Thank you for this. It corrects something which was bothering me. Plus the fact that I have just bought a Fuji X-E1 as a “carry-everywhere” lightweight to supplement my full frame Canons. This sort of service is one of the reasons why I bought in to Lightroom in the first place. Keep up the good work!

I had heard talk that this was going to be incorporated into LR5. However, from what I can find out thus far this didn’t happen. With Capture One (rival software) having this option and now options like CamRanger (which is about to release software for windows platform and already supports Mac platforms and iPad), I really think Adobe is making a mistake not getting this done. I would love to have this feature available when I shoot tethered.

Just beginning to learn Lightroom and appreciate your info here.
Definitely a newbie question: I’m buying an Olympus XZ-2 camera. Even thought it is not listed among your supported cameras for tethered shooting, can I still shoot tethered with it?
Thanks for any info / suggestions you can provide.

How come when I updated my Lightroom 4 I’m getting the message that “this version of Lightroom may require the Photoshop Camera Raw plug in version 7.4 for full compatibility?” I installed the Raw plug in and the same message pops up

I love Lightroom and have been using it religiously. However, just applied the 4.4 release/update to 4.36 and got the “000007b” error msg when I attempted to open for the first time. Had previous issue (same error msg) in version prior to 4.36. Adobe issued a package fix for that and everything was fine until now. What do I do? If I can find the package fix should I use it now…again. OR attempt to uninstall and reinstall? Please help. I want my Lightroom back!

HI I JUST INSTALL LR 4.4,AND NOTICE MY FILES FROM NIKON D3 IS NOT MATCH NIKON
NX 2 SOFTWARE ANYMORE AFTER APPLYING Camera” V4 profiles,
FILES MORE WARMER AND YELLOW…… AND THE WORST THINK IS THE SHARPNESS OF RENDERING FILES,COMPARE TO NIKON SOFTWARE, IS NOT EVEN CLOSE TO NIKON CAPTURE NX2….. IN LR 4,4 IT LACK OF DETAIL, AND FUZI I THINK SOMETING HAPPEN WHIT MY CAMERA OR LENS,….. SO I HAVE TO MOVE SLIDER OF SHARPENING TO 60 PRESENT IN THE BEGINNING AS A DEFOLT DOWNLOAD
NOT NOTICE ANY PROBLEM LIKE THIS IN LR 3.4,

I did a big reorganization of my photos through Finder (Mac), as I usually do, and when Lightroom synchronize the folders, the software disappeared with all the treatment that was done before, returning the images back to the step that they were imported.

I’ve done this same procedure before and it never happened. But this was the first time I did in Lr 4.4.

Welcome!
I wanted to ask if some of the users reporting in this post have a problem with displaying BW photos in Lightroom – they all have a slight yellowish color – especially visible in highlights. This wasn’t present in LR 4.3 on my machine. Is it just my problem or did some of You came a cross it ? And do You have any ideas what’s the reason for it?
Redards,
Sławomir

Lightroom 4.4 supports the Nikon D5200. If you want to continue using Lightroom 2.5, download the DNG Converter and convert your proprietary .nef files into DNG files. Those can be read by Lightroom 2.5.

I’m a Fujix100S user and recently upgraded LR to 4.4 .I noticed that when opening a .RAF image in Develop module, the colors of the image as its loading , for a split second, appear as they do on the camera screen ie – a lot of “pop”,saturation ) but once its done loading , the colors flatten out. Is this supposed to happen ? Is LR somehow “normalizing” any in-camera color,highlight,shadow,dynamic range values that can be customized in the X100s ?

“Since installing LR 4.4 I’m not able to import CR2 RAW from my Canon 7D. I get the message ” The following file were not imported because that could not be read (180) or (58)”

LR4.4 sees the Raw images in the import window but will not import. I can copy the raw files to another drive but yet again they will not import. I can import the raw files using Canon’s Image Browser EX. My camera firm ware is 2.0.0 but I since updated to 2.0.3.

I even went as far as try to import raw file from another card that I imported weeks ago, before upgrading to 4.4 and they will now not import.

Hi there –
I’ve been trying to convert my raw files to dng, but the option ‘Convert Photos to DNG’ is always grey (not bold and clickable) and unavailable! Even when I try to export, there is no option to convert to DNG. What’s wrong??

I just updated Lightroom and now I cannot import any files into the program. My card is full and I have to empty my card, so I can get work done. I don’t see any comments from ADOBE with advice on this page. PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO FIX THIS QUICK!!!

Hi, I just started using lightroom4 and then downloaded the up date 4.4 . I have the nikonD7100 and I’m not able to tethere and it states that no camera detected. I look on the site for answers to the problem but none. Is there a solution to this problem? Thanks

I downloaded LR 4.4 and now can’t find my images. I am getting a message to import my files into a catalog. Surely that would be automatic in an upgrade??? Help! I use a Canon GIX. Should I just go back to the previous version of LR that has al lmy images?

I want to buy LR 4.4 and have already downloaded it. However when I placed the order there was a problem with my account and I couldn´t do it. Now I have a new account and want to proceed with the purchase. How can I do it?

After trying to use this software for nine months, I finally gave up, ate the purchase price and deleted the whole damned thing. I found it to be clunky, almost impossible to use, and in general a frustrating program to work with. I had some success but the difficulties I had using it far outweighed any improvements it supposedly offered over my previous software. Even after watching the Youtube videos which seemed to make sense, I was unable to use it to do what I wanted. Using this program is/was the most incredibly frustrating experience I have ever had with a piece of software.

Since I installed 4.4 my previews load correctly some of the time but as I am going along one or two will be blank/gray just a little too long before loading, letting me know there is a problem! Not long after downloading this version I tried to optimize and back-up and a prompt came back saying that that my catalog was corrupt. I followed the prompts and am back, but the gray/blank preview problem is persisting and I am afraid this is something to do with the upgrade since nothing else has changed…..
Has anyone else had this problem? advice on how to fix this problem is greatly appreciated…Thank-you.

Been using Lr4 for a while now, the one problem I`m having is when I try to add more than one preset to a photo that I`m uploading to FB, one preset cancels out the other preset! Is there an easy way to get around this? Thanks for your reply in advance.

hey any way to get my light room 4.4 to look more like 4.3,..? I don’t like the white and grey buttons? And the temp is no longer warm/cold? Is this a skin settings? Its just weird looking? Please help!